Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.”
“You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.”
“You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.”
“You plant two sunflower seeds in a pot of rich soil. You water them with the same can, at the same time, with the same portions. You rotate the pot daily so they get equal access to the sunlight. Yet on some early, pertinent day, perhaps there is a cloud across the sky, and the plant on the left doesn’t get quite the strength of light that the one on the right does. Or there is a worm in the soil in one quadrant of the pot who eats through more of these roots here than those ones there. Who can say. Sisters are not flowers. And parents can never, from the first day, give the same water and light and soil to one girl that they gave to her sister. Sisters grow, if they grow together at all, in adjacent sorrow.”
Source: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
“You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.”
Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.”
“You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.”
“You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.”
“You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.”
“You play all your life and train all your life and then you are not playing. It's not easy to deal with. But you can't roll up in a ball and hope it goes away. You have to take it on the chin and train hard and be prepared to play. We all know the game changes in an instant and anything can happen so you have to keep the hope that comes your way.”
“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
“You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.”
“You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.”
“You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.”
Source: Assholes Finish First
“You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.”
“You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.”
“You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.”
“You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.”
Source: Serengeti Heat
“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”
“You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.”
“You play the hand you’re dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people’s hand, or questioning why you’ve got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.”
Source: The Long Awakening
“You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.”
“You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.”
“You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.”
“You play to win the game.”
“You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.”
“You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.”
“You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.”
“You play with fire, little one. The pumkin may appear tame, but the ember burns hot within.”
Source: The Pumpkin King's Bride
“You play with great skill," he said.
"Thank you."
"Is that your favorite piece?"
"It's my most difficult," Helen said, "but not my favorite."
"What do you play when there's no one to hear?"
The gentle question, spoken in that accent with vowels as broad as his shoulders, caused Helen's stomach to tighten pleasurably. Perturbed by the sensation, she was slow to reply. "I don't remember the name of it. A piano tutor taught it to me long ago. For years I've tried to find out what it is, but no one has ever recognized the melody."
"Play it for me."
Calling it up from memory, she played the sweetly haunting chords, her hands gentle on the keys. The mournful chords never failed to stir her, making her heart ache for things she couldn't name. At the conclusion, Helen looked up from the keys and found Winterborne staring at her as if transfixed. He masked his expression, but not before she saw a mixture of puzzlement, fascination, and a hint of something hot and unsettling.
"It's Welsh," he said.
Helen shook her head with a laugh of wondering disbelief. "You know it?"
"'A Ei Di'r Deryn Do.' Every Welshman is born knowing it."
"What is it about?"
"A lover who asks a blackbird to carry a message to his sweetheart."
"Why can't he go to her himself?" Helen realized they were both speaking in hushed tones, as if they were exchanging secrets.
"He can't find her. He's too deep in love- it keeps him from seeing clearly."
"Does the blackbird find her?"
"The song doesn't say," he said with a shrug.
"But I must know the ending to the story," Helen protested.
Winterborne laughed. It was an irresistible sound, rough-soft and sly. When he replied, his accent had thickened. "That's what comes o' reading novels, it is. The story needs no ending. That's not what matters."
"What matters, then?" she dared to ask.
His dark gaze held hers. "That he loves. That he's searching. Like the rest of us poor devils, he has no way of knowing if he'll ever have his heart's desire.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“You play with your soul as well as your body.”
“You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.”
“You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.”
“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.”
“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”
Source: The Passion
“You played the villain convincingly enough, Jurian,' Rhys purred.
Jurian snapped his face towards Rhys. 'You should have looked. I expected you to look into my mind, to see the truth. Why didn't you?'
Rhys was quiet for a long moment. Then he said softly, 'Because I didn't want to see her.'
See any trace of Amarantha.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.”
“You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”
“You plus God equals enough.”
Source: Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar
“You plus nothing equals everything.”
“You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?”
“You point to something as having quality and the quality seems to go away.”
“You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. “Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck” “I do not walk like a duck.” “I like ducks,” Jem observed diplomatically. “Especially the ones in Hyde Park.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.”
Source: How to be funny
“You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”
“You poor dear! Imagine having to wear Mark’s trousers! He’s a lovely lad, but I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone. God only knows who’s been in them!”
Source: Tyburn
“You poor kids! You talking children, that don't know anything about anything that matters! Don't you see? I can't play either of your games. I'm ME! I'm going to be me! Oh, if you do love me a little, let me be me! Good-by.”
Source: Mantrap
“You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only ‘now’ in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!”
“You poor thing," she said.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
She just hugged him tighter. She didn't want this moment to end. She didn't want to have to go. "I just don't want the world to break you.”
Source: The Dragon Republic
“You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?”